It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWeak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
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He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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